Another Post on PSO2 International Servers

It's nice that the developers of Phantasy Star Online 2 are looking for feedback from the community. They even went so far as to create a Facebook page to gauge the community's interest in the upcoming game.

Of course, by doing this they've left themselves wide open to comments and other input from the international community at large, and now said community has officially taken the topic of international servers to Sega of Japan.

A sort of community petition has gone up on the official PSO2 Facebook page to try and get more information out of Sega regarding their thoughts on international servers and the vague "global support" phrase that was thrown around when the game was first announced. The posts can be viewed here. Not surprisingly, there are already a lot of comments (in English) regarding this topic.

We've brought up the topic of international servers several times on this blog, too:
Revisiting PSO2 Global Support Yet Again
Debating PSO2 "Global Support"
PSO2 Console Versions Possible? Let's Hope Not

The general idea is that the international community wants to enjoy all of the content the Japanese players do without being treated like second-class citizens. The general sentiment throughout the community seems to be that if we don't get international servers, one of two things will happen:

1. PSO2 will fail in the US/EU regions because nobody will play it there, or
   
2. The US/EU players will play on the Japanese servers instead, possibly resulting in (1)

We've already leaped one huge hurdle now that the game is confirmed to be PC-only. Hopefully the developers and/or Sega of Japan will read what the international community is saying, because it could save them from the possibility of seeing the game inexplicably fail in the West.

Source: Phantasy Star Online 2 on Facebook